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of the bottom has also pierced in it eight holes, which must 

 have been made with a very fine drill. They are disposed in 

 hvo parallel rows. The object of these holes is uncertain. ;As 

 one side of the bottom bears traces of blubber, the dish may 

 perhaps have been used as a repository for blubber, and the 

 holes in the bottom have been intended for the discharge of 

 the liquid part of the blubber. — Ryder found several bottoms 

 of whalebone-dishes in Scoresby Sund^). 



The ends of the whalebone piece which form the sides 

 have been made to interlap, and have been sewed together 



Fig. 28 (гиг?. Amd. 53). The interlapping ends of the 

 whalebone rim. ^/7. 



with whalebone cord (fig. 28). Ryder ^) also speaks of having 

 found samples of whalebone lashings in Scoresby Sund, plaited 

 or unplaited. Those which were found here are unplaited thin 

 strips. In the piece where the whalebone rim has been doubled 

 over, the holes traverse both its ends, and along the top 

 edge they lie in two rows, eight (or nine) in each. The cord 

 is drawn from each hole in the upper row through the cor- 

 responding hole in the lower one, so that it connects one pair 



') Ryder, 334. 

 -I Ryder, 326. 



